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proselytize
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  • Perhaps the answer is that we have entrusted our city to a group of proselytizing tyrants who do not know how to lead us out of poverty and into prosperity.  (source)
    proselytizing = trying to change others' core beliefs
  • I know she had the ring before Dad served a mission—which was expected of all faithful Mormon men—and spent two years proselytizing in Florida.†  (source)
  • I'm not a proselytizer, I'm no evangelist.†  (source)
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  • The good people of Hyperion have done nothing to foist their religious opinions on me, so I see no reason to offend them with my proselytizing.†  (source)
  • The initial goals were twofold: one, to proselytize the Trisolaran religion; and two, to allow the tentacles of the ETO to spread from the highly educated intelligentsia to the lower social strata, and recruit younger ETO members from the middle and lower classes.†  (source)
  • She was a much more persistent proselytizer than any prisoner I had known in Danbury.†  (source)
  • Pose as survey takers, bill collectors, insurance runners delivering checks, door-to-door proselytizers, whatever might be believable, but talk to the neighbors and learn what you can without being suspicious.†  (source)
  • Protestantism sat at ease, unmindful of schisms, careless of proselytism: Dissent was an inheritance along with a superior pew and a business connection; and Churchmanship only wondered contemptuously at Dissent as a foolish habit that clung greatly to families in the grocery and chandlering lines, though not incompatible with prosperous wholesale dealing.†  (source)
  • Pappa, I'm not going to proselytise.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it proselytize.
  • He was capable of maintaining companionable silences, indeed, often seemed to prefer them to talk, and he made light conversation at least as often as he proselytized.†  (source)
  • In his free time he travelled around and did proselytising for Nazism.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it proselytizing.
  • The sisters were open, low-key, never proselytizing.†  (source)
  • They don't proselytize; they don't stand in pulpits or on party platforms and tell us to fight for Peace or for God or whatever it is.†  (source)
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